Kerrigan, Finola and Brownlie, Douglas and Hewer, Paul and Daza-LeTouze, Claudia (2011) 'Spinning' Warhol : celebrity brand theoretics and the logic of the celebrity brand. Journal of Marketing Management, 27 (13-14). pp. 1504-1524. ISSN 0267-257XFull text not available in this repository. (Request a copy from the Strathclyde author)
The paper takes as its subject celebrity and consumption and the cultural logic of the celebrity brand. It introduces the concept of celebritisation as the engine of celebrity culture, discussing ways in which celebrity brands operate as ‘map-making’ devices which situate consumers within networks of symbolic resources. We construct particulars via an investigative narrative that draws critically upon published accounts of the life and work of Andy Warhol, generating observations of signature practices and technologies of formation of Celebrity Brandhood. Within an inductive architecture we modulate to celebrity brands as transmediated marketing accomplishments which trade upon allure, glamour and charisma, constructed around rituals of transition, belonging, intimacy, and affect. We suggest that at the heart of the machinery of the cultural logic of the Celebrity Brand is the mediated spectacle as a field of social invention and transformation. In this way, the paper opens up pathways toward further interpretive analyses of celebrity brands, articulating the basis of accounts of Celebrity Brand Theoretics.
|Keywords:||branding, marketing, celebrities, celebrity branding, Marketing. Distribution of products, Strategy and Management, Marketing|
|Subjects:||Social Sciences > Commerce > Marketing. Distribution of products|
|Department:||Strathclyde Business School > Marketing|
|Depositing user:||Pure Administrator|
|Date Deposited:||24 Oct 2011 10:20|
|Last modified:||20 May 2016 03:46|